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Census of marine life finds 20,000 new species [1]

KOCHI: The rediscovery of a Jurassic shrimp, thought to have been extinct 50 million years ago, and a living Caribbean fossil that flourished worldwide some 100 million years, are some of the interesting finds of the recently concluded first census of marine life.

The census revealed the richness of marine biodiversity and it took the estimate of known marine species from about 2.3 lakh to near

Publication Date: 
02/12/2010
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram) [2]
Tags:
Marine Life [3], Fish Biodiversity [4], Census/ Habitat Monitoring [5]

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